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Labor unions -- United States -- Officials and employees

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

American Federation of Labor Records, Part 2 on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5760 mf
Abstract

Documents in extensive detail the emergence of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and subsequent competition and cooperation between the CIO and American Federation of Labor (AFL) through the close of that decade, until the early 1950s.

Dates: 1936-1953

CIO Files of John L. Lewis, Pt. II: CIO General Files on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5831 mf
Abstract

This collection documents the origins and early history of the CIO as well as the dynamics of working-class militancy in the era of the Great Depression. The collection also provides a substantial amount of information concerning workers and trade unionism before the creation of the CIO and also after the UMWA's separation from the CIO in 1942.

Dates: 1922-1962

"History of the United Mine Workers, 1890-1932" Unpublished Manuscript on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5302 mf
Abstract This manuscript consists of approximately 110 type-written pages and represents the major portion of Mr. Pascoe's projected history of the United Mine Workers. The material here was written between 1926 and 1932. The manuscript deals mainly with Mr. Pascoe's early organizing activities in Kentucky and with the Illinois "rebellion" of the late twenties and early thirties. Mr. Pascoe's examination of the affair in Illinois differs from most other accounts in that he approaches the events from...
Dates: 1926-1932

Inter-University Labor Education Committee Records

 Collection
Identifier: 5234
Abstract

This accession consists generally of correspondence between the executive secretaries of the Inter-University Labor Education Committee (IULEC) and the staff of the participating universities, the Fund for Adult Education, and various labor unions; and reports and documents generated by the university projects and the administration of IULEC.

Dates: 1951-1975

John Llewellyn Lewis Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5429 mf
Abstract

Fragment of personal papers of John L. Lewis, including correspondence, speeches, reports, union records, personal documents, memorabilia, clippings, and photographs.

Dates: 1920-1960

Knights of Labor Papers on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5503 mf a & b
Abstract

The Terence Vincent Powderly Papers, 1864-1937 (reels 1-94) [5503A mf] ; John William Hayes Papers, 1880-1921 (reels 1-15) [5503b mf]

Dates: 1864-1937

Local 1199 Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: 5680 OH
Abstract

The unedited oral history interviews of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees discuss the evolution of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union drugstore local (known as Local 1199 and District 1199), representing pharmacists and drug clerks in New York City, into an international union of professional and non-professional workers in voluntary and non-profit health institutions, including hospitals, clinics and nursing homes, as well as drug stores.

Dates: 1975-2008

National Institute of Labor Education (NILE) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5545
Abstract

Includes materials generated by and about the National Institute of Labor Education's Mental Health Project, regarding union mental health programs and mental health research and education in universities.

Dates: 1957-1968

Samuel Gompers Project on Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: 5632 mf A & B
Abstract

This collection is a combination of two collections: 5632 A - titled - American Federation of Labor Records : The Samuel Gompers Era, 1877-1937, consisting of 144 microfilm reels and 5632 B - titled - The American Federation of Labor and the Unions: National & International Union Records From The Samuel Gompers Era and this consists of 5 microfilm reels.

Dates: 1878-1937